You.com API pricing

What 100,000 searches a month cost

At 100,000 searches of up to 10 results a month, You.com's Web Search API costs $500. The same calls cost $100 on SpecStream through You.com's own call shape, or $500 with the answer written for you.

Add the full text of all 10 pages to every call and You.com's ceiling is $0.015 a call, $1,500 a month. On SpecStream the search plus 10 pages through the Extract API is $0.009 a call, $900 a month. passages=true returns the text of the top pages inside the $0.001 search, $100 a month.

The answer at the same $5, from the most accurate web search API

You.com's Answer API and SpecStream's default search both cost $5 per 1,000. A SpecStream reply carries answer with the page it was read from and its read time in seen_at, rows with the facts the request asks for, and sources, the results read in rank order. When the results disagree, answer is null and every value found stays in rows with its page.

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 official SimpleQA Verified questions, 978 of them correct, and 64.0 item F1 and 43.4 row F1 on all 200 official WideSearch tasks. Every score and its method are on the benchmarks page.

Research priced per call, or data priced per row

You.com's Research API bills each call by effort: $12 per 1,000 on Lite, $100 on Deep, $1,200 on Frontier, which runs only in background mode. A call returns one cited answer and is billed whatever it returns.

When the job is a list, every company or filing that meets a set of conditions, Deep Search returns one row per match with a source on each value, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. The most a run can cost is quoted before it starts, nothing runs until you approve it, and a run that finds nothing costs nothing.

Costs that are not on the price list

You.com's free sign up credits last 60 days. Every request is one billable call whatever it returns, and full page content is billed on top of the search for each page crawled live. A Finance Research Exhaustive call takes up to 5 minutes, and Frontier runs only in background mode, so your client needs a long timeout or a second call to collect the result.

On SpecStream a search that returns no results costs nothing, a busy call is not charged, and an Idempotency-Key header makes a retried call charge once. The reply's price_usd says what each call cost.

SpecStream

The live web data engine for teams and agents. The Search API costs $1 per 1,000 searches of up to 10 results on the fast tier and every drop-in address, and $5 with the answer. The Extract API reads pages at $0.80 per 1,000, and Deep Search delivers full datasets at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row. New accounts get $10 of credit, no card.

Brave Search API

A search API on Brave's own index, sold as prepaid credits. The Search plan costs $5 per 1,000 requests with $5 in free credits every month, and the Answers plan costs $4 per 1,000 requests plus $5 per million input and output tokens. A SpecStream search costs $0.001 on Brave's call, and $0.005 with the answer and its page.

Exa

Search costs $4 (lite) or $7 (auto, fast) per 1,000 requests of up to 10 results, more results cost $1 per 1,000, and page contents cost $1 per 1,000 pages. The free tier is $10 in credits every month, plus a $10 bonus at sign up. SpecStream reads pages at $0.80 per 1,000 through the Extract API.

Kagi Search API

Search results from Kagi at $12 per 1,000 requests, invoiced when usage reaches $100. SpecStream costs $1 per 1,000 searches through a drop-in address, a twelfth of the rate.

SerpApi

A search results API sold on monthly plans: Starter is $25 a month for 1,000 searches and Developer is $75 a month for 5,000. SpecStream costs $1 per 1,000 searches with no monthly plan to buy.